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Can you please explain what [8] does show, then? [8] seems to show that the ENTIRE IP RANGE is assigned to nsa.gov. Just seeing that some innocuous-looking ser
by mr_luc 13y ago
Can you please explain what [8] does show, then?
[8] seems to show that the ENTIRE IP RANGE is assigned to nsa.gov. Just seeing that some innocuous-looking services are running on some IPs in that range doesn't mean anything for or against.
The government uses Outlook, has phones ... and even owns businesses (sometimes surreptitiously, like CIA front companies).
In fact, if the intelligence apparatus of this country didn't own or directly control at least one ISP, I'd be very, very surprised.
- A1kmm 13y agoWhat [8] shows is that nsa.gov resolves to 65.196.127.226. 65.196.127.226 is part of the range 65.192.0.0/11 assigned to AS (autonomous system) 701, which is "UUnet Technologies, Inc". From Wikipedia, "Today, UUNET is an internal brand of Verizon Business". Both 65.196.127.226 (the server that hosts nsa.gov) and 65.222.202.53 fall in the same /11 block (i.e. a block of 2,097,152 addresses) assigned to UUnet / Verizon Business. However, that is a huge block of IP addresses, and numerous other servers are also hosted by Verizon Business on that block - http://route.robtex.com/65.192.0.0-11.html http://route.robtex.com/65.192.0.0-11.html will give you a list. It is entirely possible that the Verizon Business is providing services to some US government agency to run 65.222.202.53, but the fact that NSA also uses Verizon Business to host its website is hardly conclusive proof of anything.